From: GregNoel <GregNoel@fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:02:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue 2228: discard stderr by using os.devnull
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13df5b989072be60efe6f8cb1b48d50127f63c8d;p=scons.git

Issue 2228: discard stderr by using os.devnull

git-svn-id: http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/trunk@3774 fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1
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diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Action.py b/src/engine/SCons/Action.py
index 70fafe00..6ce51168 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Action.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Action.py
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ __revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
 import cPickle
 import dis
 import os
-import os.path
 import string
 import sys
 import subprocess
@@ -579,8 +578,17 @@ def get_default_ENV(env):
 # it'll have to be tweaked to get the full desired functionality.
 # one special arg (so far?), 'error', to tell what to do with exceptions.
 def _subproc(env, cmd, error = 'ignore', **kw):
-    """Do setup for a subprocess.Popen() call"""
-    ### TODO: allow std{in,out,err} to be "'devnull'" (see issue 2228)
+    """Do common setup for a subprocess.Popen() call"""
+    # allow std{in,out,err} to be "'devnull'"
+    io = kw.get('stdin')
+    if is_String(io) and io == 'devnull':
+        kw['stdin'] = open(os.devnull)
+    io = kw.get('stdout')
+    if is_String(io) and io == 'devnull':
+        kw['stdout'] = open(os.devnull, 'w')
+    io = kw.get('stderr')
+    if is_String(io) and io == 'devnull':
+        kw['stderr'] = open(os.devnull, 'w')
 
     # Figure out what shell environment to use
     ENV = kw.get('env', None)
@@ -971,7 +979,7 @@ class FunctionAction(_ActionAction):
                 # probably be best to always return them by value here, but
                 # some codes do not check the return value of Actions and I do
                 # not have the time to modify them at this point.
-                if (exc_info[1] and 
+                if (exc_info[1] and
                     not isinstance(exc_info[1],EnvironmentError)):
                     raise result
 
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py b/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py
index 5ac10ac1..327e0d10 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py
@@ -527,7 +527,8 @@ class SubstitutionEnvironment:
     def backtick(self, command):
         import subprocess
         # common arguments
-        kw = { 'stdout' : subprocess.PIPE,
+        kw = { 'stdin' : 'devnull',
+               'stdout' : subprocess.PIPE,
                'stderr' : subprocess.PIPE,
                'universal_newlines' : True,
              }
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/g++.py b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/g++.py
index 61d095e5..b492604b 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/g++.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/g++.py
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ def generate(env):
     if env['CXX']:
         #pipe = SCons.Action._subproc(env, [env['CXX'], '-dumpversion'],
         pipe = SCons.Action._subproc(env, [env['CXX'], '--version'],
-                                     stderr = subprocess.PIPE,
+                                     stdin = 'devnull',
+                                     stderr = 'devnull',
                                      stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
         if pipe.wait() != 0: return
         # -dumpversion was added in GCC 3.0.  As long as we're supporting
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/gcc.py b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/gcc.py
index 7d2b1b87..d0741917 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/gcc.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/gcc.py
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ def generate(env):
     if env['CC']:
         #pipe = SCons.Action._subproc(env, [env['CC'], '-dumpversion'],
         pipe = SCons.Action._subproc(env, [env['CC'], '--version'],
-                                     stderr = subprocess.PIPE,
+                                     stdin = 'devnull',
+                                     stderr = 'devnull',
                                      stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
         if pipe.wait() != 0: return
         # -dumpversion was added in GCC 3.0.  As long as we're supporting